Hotfix patch notes (11th April 2012)

[CraigTW]

Hi all,

We've just released a patch for a couple of issues.

• Fix for blood effect in blood pack
• Fixed occasional crash when entering Avatar Conquest Map
• Miscellaneous other crash fixes
• Fixed an issue where trees could appear black
• Fix for level 9 clan skill lockout

Enjoy!

The Creative Assembly

[Akaie]

Out of curiosity, where does the bunch of UI image files in the patch fit into this?

Thanks for the patch & notes .

[daniu]

Oooh you're starting to fix small and often instead of large and rare?
That'd be great!

[0ldboy]

Thanks for this CA. I saw the patch downloading when I came back in the room so fired up FOTS as I have been having bad battle crashes (no problems whatsoever pre FOTS). The battles work now, incredibly, though when I quick saved after winning it CTD'd! Rargh!

One step at a time I suppose...

[rasassfrass]

yes a fix for the blood pack thank you ca for contiuing support for shogun post release keep it up. p.s. doing frequent small pacthes evry two weeks or so is very nice

[Kinjo]

Nice my Avatar works again!

[Megalos]

Anyone else getting a 6gb download, or has mine royally screwed up (again)?

[Shavoi]

Anyone else getting a 6gb download, or has mine royally screwed up (again)?

130.7MB here so... unlucky.

[Smirk]

Hmmm, the blood seems to only show up on the left arm and head.

It appears correctly only for a milli second as the unit is killed, then immediately disappears everywhere except the head and left arm.

(Unmodded game, all DLC, FOS)

[Captain Arrrgh!]

Hmmm, the blood seems to only show up on the left arm and head.

It appears correctly only for a milli second as the unit is killed, then immediately disappears everywhere except the head and left arm.

(Unmodded game, all DLC, FOS)

Seconded. I was ready to offer a grudging thanks for the patch, but after testing on all three different eras, with a clean install I'm certain the blood only stays on the face, the loins and the left arm. The right arm and torso are clean as a baby's bottom. The blood decals only appear on the torso for a moment when the individual is struck.

On a positive note, the blood looks a lot cripser now, and they've got splatters on the faces of survivors too, not just the slain.

What I fear now is that CA will work no more on the Blood Pack, considering it 'fixed' even though it isn't.

[Humble Warrior]

Seconded. I was ready to offer a grudging thanks for the patch, but after testing on all three different eras, with a clean install I'm certain the blood only stays on the face, the loins and the left arm. The right arm and torso are clean as a baby's bottom. The blood decals only appear on the torso for a moment when the individual is struck.

On a positive note, the blood looks a lot cripser now, and they've got splatters on the faces of survivors too, not just the slain.

What I fear now is that CA will work no more on the Blood Pack, considering it 'fixed' even though it isn't.

You guys work fast!

Yes, it does look like the blood is on specific parts of the body. And it is on everyone involved in the fight. It perhaps needs a little more randomisation on the bodies, but it`s not essential to me. They certainly look bloodied now. To be honest I wouldn`t even need all that blood spurting stuff- The spats will do me .

I would have liked a min, medium, max setting, but it`s obviously not going to happen. And there are more important gameplay issues.

[♔Noif de Bodemloze♔]

I hope they can fix parrot cannon smoke + particle bug

[Humble Warrior]

I hope they can fix parrot cannon smoke + particle bug

Having the Parrot cannon just know when to stop and deploy on attack would be nice.

Checking to see what other fixes this Patch has done... None of them seem really essential for gameplay as least for SP... except for crashes and I had only 1. But we`ll see.

[Izak]

So am I the only one who still has trouble with kneel fire still?

[Wolfsblut]

So am I the only one who still has trouble with kneel fire still?

I didnt came that far.
After the patch again mess up the mod-fixes, that remove that childish laser-tracers from fireweapons, etc. i will let the game rest for some time.

Seriously, is it that difficult to make that comic-style (tracers from fireweapons, child-fingerpainting from the bloodpack on my screen) optional?

Some of this crap is removed by the community since tw-empire, not without a reason maybe...

[Pico total war]

Craig, when will we have the 40 vs 40 multiplayers battles?

[A Barbarian]

no MSAA fix

Edit: it's half fixed

[Pesticide]

craigtw, can you confirm if there will be more patches ? I remember in the past there was only limited budget for patches. Are we down to just one more big patch to fix desync with that tool, or will you guys start bringing out more minor balancing patches for multiplayer like blizzard does for starcraft 2 so we can enjoy great and balanced fmultiplayer for the rest of the year.

[Felixlynch777]

Thank you for patch Craig

[♔The Black Knight♔]

Thanks for the patch! I like the small often patches way more then the huge ones. Please keep it like this.